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And, asks those with flu symptons to refrain from visiting others at St. Rita's Medical Center

Mercy Health-Bluffton Family Practice offers some advice if you think you have the flu and need care: Bluffton Family Medicine offers walk-in care from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday-Friday and is a perfect place to get the care you need, quickly and affordably. It also offers a "Evisit" available from your home through the Mercy Health MyChart app.

Minus 12 reading on Jan. 3 is a chilly fact

Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, provides the cold, hard facts about exactly how cold it was last week.

From Jan. 1 to Jan. 6, the “highest” daily low temperature was 1 degree on Jan. 4 and 7. The warmest reading during that period was 16 degrees on both Jan. 3 and 4.

Here are the daily maximum and minimum temperatures from Jan. 1 to Jan. 8.

RSVP now for January chamber breakfast

Beth Bish of Bluffton Pediatrics is the Friday speaker at the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce's Januarty breakfast. RSVPs are accepted at [email protected]

Breakfast buffet, 7 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
Program, 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
3rd floor, Bluffton town hall

Bish, CNP, primary care provider and co-owner of Bluffton Pediatrics, will talk focusing on "The Preschool years," as it relates to her health practice.

You will find this plate on a dark Nissan Altima SL in the parking lot of The Inn at ONU in Ada. Obviously an ONU and OSU sports fan.

101 degrees of temperature extremes experienced

In a sentence, 2017 weather was warmer and wetter than normal.

Those facts and figures come from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. A summery of 2017 and a 10-year record follows. Two charts attached at the bottom of the story provide additional information.

• 2017 was 2.3 degrees above the normal average.
• Precipitation was 5.07 inches above the normal average.

Starting with hot dogs on Wednesday

It's a hot dog lunch on Wednesday at Bluffton schools. For the rest of January's menus click here.

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